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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857042958Author Andrew BeardmoreFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

The town of Pontypridd has seen many changes over the years. This edition contains old photographs of Pontypridd that takes the reader on a journey back in time to discover why this frontier town was born out of the industrialisation of its surrounding...

Invested examines the perennial and nefarious appeal of financial advice manuals. Who hasn't wished for a surefire formula for riches and a ticket to the good life? For three centuries, investment advisers of all kinds, legit and otherwise, have...

'..the news that Baritone Richard Suart has produced an account of Ko-Ko's Little Lists will be music to your ears. Beginning with a brief history of The Mikado, this hearty collaboration focuses on the way contemporary politics and society are freshly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850543070Author Chris MakepeaceImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps

Paris Then and Now captures the changes that have taken place in the French capital from the heady days of the Belle Epoque through to the 1940s. Matching classic archive images with the same viewpoint taken today the book provides a stunning...

On Tuesday 25 July 2000 Air France Flight AFR 4590, a Concorde registered F-BTSC, took off from Paris Charles de Gaulle, to undertake a charter flight to New York with nine crew members and one hundred passengers on board. During takeoff from runway 26...

First published in 1994. This study sets out to investigate English opera from 1834 to 1864. The author attempts to understand the circumstances influencing the development of English nineteenth-century opera, its characteristic features, and the reasons...

England in 1912 still bears itself with Edwardian confidence, but strikes, protests and public violence reveal the fault lines as society evolves under the spur of new ideas and technology. Among the many branches of the Morland family, Jessie and...

Did you know: - that, with more than 17,000 skeletons in its collection, the Museum of London has over three times the amount of dead bodies than a full-capacity audience at the Royal Albert Hall? - that 'Farting Lane' (Carting Lane, off the Strand) was...

Discussing the key issues of modern warfare, Hew Strachan's work examines the theory and practice of land warfare in Europe since 1700.Looking at warfare in the context of social and political change, Dr. Strachan interprets his subject matter as widely...

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, Germany has faced complex challenges. The rapid introduction of political, economic, and social union in 1990 joined East and West in an experiment without precedent, as the former German Democratic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840336061Author Guthrie HuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 272mm * 210mm * 7mm

This fascinating book contains a terrifying collection of true-life, spine-chilling tales from across Tyneside. Featuring stories of unexplained phenomena, apparitions and poltergeists, including the phantom monk of Tynemouth Priory, the restless spirit...

How did the early Christian church manage to win its dominant place in the Roman world? In his newest book, an eminent historian of ancient Rome examines this question from a secular-rather than an ecclesiastical-viewpoint. MacMullen's provocative...

This survey of crime in ENgland from the medieval period to the present day synthesizes case-study and local-level material and standardizes the debates and issues for the student reader.About the AuthorJohn Briggs, Mr John Briggs, Christopher Harrison,...

While their role has been all too often overlooked by historians, cattle played an integral part in the economy, ecology and culture of Highland life. Although many of these animals and their keepers have been abandoned in favour of sheep walks and deer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850588573Author Tom SchofieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Sigma LeisurePublisher Sigma PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 8mm

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism comprises thirty six essays by an international team of leading scholars, providing a global coverage of the history of nationalism in its different aspects - ideas, sentiments, and politics. Every...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781887593960Author G K ChestertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Kino and Kinder: A Family's Journey in the Shadow of the Holocaust is the story of a European Jewish family's struggle to survive in the face of Nazi antisemitism and the Holocaust. The terrible history of twentieth-century genocide is told through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851246499Author V. Gordon ChildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807046296Author Sidney MintzFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Practising historians claim that their accounts of the past are something other than fiction, myth or propaganda. Yet there are significant challenges to this view, most notably from postmodernism. In Historical Theory, a prominent historian develops a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780922558865Author Jacob RabinowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Yogh & Thorn PressPublisher Yogh & Thorn PressWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm)...

A major difficulty for those who wish to understand and enjoy Scottish medieval churches is the ecclesiological groundwork was not carried out in the nineteenth century in the way that was done for England and other parts of Europe. In an effort to...

Donations to the Knights Hospitaller in Britain and Ireland, 1291-1400 is the first study of donations to the Knights Hospitaller throughout England and Ireland during the late-thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The book demonstrates that patrons...

History, Memory and Public Life introduces readers to key themes in the study of historical memory and its significance by considering the role of historical expertise and understanding in contemporary public reflection on the past.Divided into two...

This book is the authoritative introduction to the history of black civil rights in the USA. It provides a clear and useful guide to the political, social and cultural history of black Americans and their pursuit of equal rights and recognition from 1865...

Herefordshire Murders brings together twenty-eight murderous tales, some which were little known outside the county and others which made national headlines. Herefordshire was home to one of Britain's most infamous murderers, Major Herbert Rowse...

Today's arguments over Britain's relationship with Europe and its place in the world are shaped by its imperial history. The nineteenth century is too often invoked as moment where, thanks to unrivalled industry and an expansive empire, Britain alone...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912213139Author Peter WallerFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited

In the first book to deal with the history of Manchester from its Roman foundations to the era of the Industrial revolution, Dr Michael Nevell uses the results of nearly ten years of archaeological excavation to illuminate the fascinating changes that...

'Roberts boldly dons Churchill's own mantle, setting out to continue where Churchill's four volumes left off, which was in 1901. The mantle fits ... an advocate of Churchillian eloquence' Mail on Sunday Andrew Roberts, Wolfson History prize-winner,...

A new edition of a classic Batsford title from the 1930s. London is brought to life through its people, buildings and history in this classic book, first published in 1935. The Spirit of London presents a wonderful snapshot of our capital before World...

This delightful collection of pictures is a valuable record of many of the historically important buildings of the town of Stafford, a town which boasts a history of over 1000 years. William the Conqueror thought so highly of it he put his Standard...

Every year the Isle of Wight welcomes thousands of visitors from all over the world who come to explore its fascinating places, people and history. Discover the island's distant and medieval past, and the ongoing restoration and preservation of its many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780914510Author Jim BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

Amongst the Ruins explores the loss of ancient civilizations, the collapse of ruling elites, and the disappearance of more recent communities and their local traditions. Some of these are now sealed under 3,000-year-old peat, others lost to rising seas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446613804Author J. Randy TaraborrelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 615Imprint Warner BooksPublisher Little, Brown & Company